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  • New blog, it finally happened

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    In case anyone still checks out this blog, I finally got my shit together and created a new site, which you can find here. If you're a subscriber, the feed is here.

    See you there! ' [...]
    Posted: February 27, 2008, 9:51pm EST
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Christmas Musical Goodness

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    That's me, probably writing something angry like: "Remember your fucking lines!" Just kidding. The cast of the Christmas musical I'm directing (and that opens this Thursday, so if you live in Austin, come see it), is really phenomenal.

    It's the most fun I've had making [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2007, 11:27am EST
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Where the Hell is Jonathon?

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    I'm working on a new blog. A bigger, better, more exciting blog -- that'll be finished as soon as I can figure out how to make WordPress work on my own domain (this is the point I realize I'm not nearly as smart as I thought I was, and may' [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2007, 2:35pm EST
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • One Year

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    One Year

    I was so pumped when we pulled that dress out earlier this week and it still fit.

    [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2007, 1:10am EST
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Waking Up

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    It's incredibly early in the morning as I write this. The sips of coffee I'm taking in between sentences are like small hits of liquid crack. There is a soft-focus fuzz around everything I see, while my eyes slowly adjust to being uncomfortably half-awake. My body aches. My breath is [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2007, 2:16pm EST
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Amanda is Famous in an Internet Kinda Way

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    Before she moved to Austin, Amanda lived with the hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This is where she met Von. Von is a recording artist who goes by the moniker VonVonVon. He made a song called House of Von, and because Amanda is a dancer, she got to be in the [...]
    Posted: November 01, 2007, 8:49pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Temporarily Awesome

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    Yesterday afternoon, I went to give Edan a kiss goodbye, and she recoiled -- like normal -- because she wants me to "wash off" my beard. But then, as I went to set her down and walk out the door, she stopped me, pushed back my baseball cap, and gave [...]
    Posted: October 30, 2007, 11:10am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Dear Cat That Dumped on My Doorstep

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    I see you and your scraggly-ass friends hanging out, stalking the house, sneaking around the backyard and sending the neighbor's dogs into a frenzied, highly-vocal state of insanity. I get it -- someone who used to live here was nice to you, and now you miss the attention. Awww, wah' [...]
    Posted: October 27, 2007, 1:24am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Other Adults at the Playground

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    It's Fall

    Usually the moms just smile, when we're forced to acknowledge each other's existence. Sometimes they apologize if their kid does something shitty. Once I got caught in between two women, pushing their daughters on swings and discussing how difficult it is to find' [...]
    Posted: October 24, 2007, 8:50am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • May The Force Be With You

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    It's finally getting colder in Austin. Yesterday Edan and I got out of the car and strolled through some random neighborhood, just to be outside in it. She kept complaining about the wind, but didn't want to go inside -- the gusts of chilly air still novel to to a [...]
    Posted: October 23, 2007, 1:05pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Not Dead, Just Busy

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    emptynewhouse

    Moved in, started new bloggy-type job which has been equal parts crazy and fun, been rehearsing four nights a week. Am about to go bowling during which time my brain will be completely in the off position.

    The photos is of the house [...]
    Posted: October 19, 2007, 9:40pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Dear U-Haul, I Hate You

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    I never could understand why every time I came into U-Haul to rent a truck there was some asshole bitching and moaning. Man, I thought -- no wonder all the lifeless employees shove paperwork in my hand and maintain a customer service demeanor that barely conceals the constant threat of [...]
    Posted: October 16, 2007, 9:02am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Jonathon Wants Your Christmas Decorations. Seriously.

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    Normally I don't write about my theater habit, because let's be real: even if you are one of the eight or nine other people in the universe that give a rat's ass, you probably don't live in Austin, and couldn't come see the shows we make. So really, what's the [...]
    Posted: October 11, 2007, 1:37am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Mom and Dad Are Getting Married, Just Not to Each Other

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    When two people have a child, their lives are forever intertwined -- no matter how their relationship crumbles, or how they choose to parent in the aftermath. Oh, how that which drives us to fume and rage at one another is also that which binds us inexorably together. Ah, the [...]
    Posted: October 09, 2007, 10:46am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Shhh...

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    Peeking

    Earlier this afternoon, we learned the word precarious.

    For instance -- every now and again, Edan is still asleep when I pick her up from daycare. This puts dad in a precarious position. Wake her up while she's still in bed, and you're [...]
    Posted: October 08, 2007, 10:00am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • My House Smells Like Stale Death

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    That's tar

    I love our new house. I love the space, I love the light, I love the floors -- I even love the potential I see in the backyard (after I rip out a couple dying trees).

    But I hate the smell.
    [...]

    Posted: October 06, 2007, 8:32am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • A Greener Shade of Jonathon

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    For everyone who's into living green (or wishes they were into it), I'm writing for a new site called Green Daily. It's a sort of "eco-friendly for dummies" -- which is good 'cause, while I'm interested, I'm obviously no activist.

    Favorite post so far: Bike/Lawnmower Hybrid [...]
    Posted: October 05, 2007, 2:20pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • The New Favorite Song

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    Before we flew to my parents' house back at Christmas, I became obsessed with having enough toddler-entertaining material to keep Edan occupied in during plane flights -- whatever I could do to avoid being stuck with a screaming 2-year-old while trapped in tightly-sealed echo chambers soaring miles above the' [...]
    Posted: October 04, 2007, 2:02pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen

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    As the Internet seethes with stories of Britney Spears losing her mind, losing control, and losing custody of her kids, it reminds me of a more personal parenting defeat I've suffered recently. 'Twas the final battle in a war waged over four long years -- began by my younger, more [...]
    Posted: October 02, 2007, 9:12am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Growing Pains

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    feeding goats!

    Edan and I have been mildly at odds this past week. We've both felt crappy-ish most afternoons, and she's either growing, or trying to move up a weight class in some toddler fight club she's keeping secret from her parents -- so who' [...]
    Posted: September 30, 2007, 4:43pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Following Our Dreams

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    The past two weeks have been encompassed by The Purge. Slowly but surely, our things have escaped, retreating from our little duplex in the hands of new couples, college students, grandmas, old friends, and bags destined for Goodwill. We're in our 20s, we're not rich, and each of us moved [...]
    Posted: September 29, 2007, 12:42am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • How I Lost a Bet, and a Dog

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    Amanda and I are fond of taking steadfast, stalwart positions on either sides of arbitrary, meaningless debates -- like, whether or not Dan Aykroyd is dead, and if it was Queen or AC/DC that sang Fat Bottom Girls. Quickly these become "bets," only we don't wager anything, which sucks, because' [...]
    Posted: September 25, 2007, 12:15pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Size Matters, Dude

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    A trip to the suburbs is a little bit like a special adventure to the land of wonder. Not to sound like some bi-coastal, elitist prick who uses expressions like "fly-over states" -- or to insinuate that I live in some uber-urban metropolis instead of an overgrown college town. The [...]
    Posted: September 24, 2007, 9:21am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Postmodern Parenting is So...Fish

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    At the Blanton Museum

    Ever since my late teens, when I reinvented myself as a self-righteous maestro du fantastic, I've always been very attracted to the idea of enjoying art museums. The quiet, the contemplation, the serenity of genius -- piously arranged and thoughtfully lit,' [...]
    Posted: September 21, 2007, 8:29am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Looking on the Bright Side

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    . . .

    I suck in a deep breath, but my chest is tight -- trying to shrug the weight off before knocking on the door at daycare. It's a bad day, and Edan doesn't want to leave, so she whines from her car seat about going home, or [...]
    Posted: September 18, 2007, 10:37am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Rainbows

    At the fountain by Ruta Maya


    Heather Craven, who I write with at ParentDish, was kind enough to feature this photo today, so I thought I'd post it here, too. Edan, Amanda and I have walked past this fountain dozens of times, [...]
    Posted: September 17, 2007, 5:48pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Singing and Dancing

    There's a part of me that hopes Edan doesn't grow up to be an artist. I want her to fall in love with law, or medicine, or science, or marketing, or whatever -- anything that she can passionately pursue without living on the fringes, grasping at straws, and begging for [...]
    Posted: September 16, 2007, 8:32am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Putting On My Game Face

    ...

    I was totally jock-tastic for awhile there, and would go from football, to basketball, to baseball -- completely obsessed with spending every afternoon feeding my addiction to any organized competition that involved flying balls and a highly-specific, imagined construct that dictated the rules of play. Quarterback, pitcher, point [...]
    Posted: September 11, 2007, 10:29am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • How I Sneezed My Way Through Monday

    Those are tissues

    Those are tissues. Let's not pull any punches, I feel like a big pile 'o ass.

    Playing in the sprinker


    That's how I spent my afternoon. I lasted about 20 minutes (and got totally soaked) before [...]

    Posted: September 10, 2007, 7:30pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Le House du Fantastic

    Over the past week, we've been learning the finer points of the home-purchasing process. Namely, why each and every homeowner we've spoken with has made a point to emphasize the drama, heart-ache, pain, and joy associated with making a purchase that you're committed to from now until your mid-50s. [...]
    Posted: September 09, 2007, 11:03am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Big, Booming Noises Are Very Attractive

    Giving in to the small part of myself that's perennially hunting for clues amidst a layman's paranoid schizophrenia, I got out of my chair to investigate the thunder richocheting through my neighborhood, echoing off the houses -- literally making the furniture shake as I cracked upon the front door.
    [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2007, 10:00am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • Home

    Edan and I kept in the shade as best we could, hiking through the woods yesterday afternoon. September is still summer in Texas, but the leaves show hints of turning brown, just like their northern cousins. In the evening, in the breeze, you might almost fool yourself into believing the [...]
    Posted: September 07, 2007, 8:30am EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan
  • One Last Photo, and Then I'll Shut Up About Our Trip to Florida

    I only posted this photo 'cause I think I look cool in these sunglasses


    In all honesty, I'm only posting this because I think I look cool in those sunglasses. Plus, I like the light as it sneaks through the holes in the playground.[...]

    Posted: September 06, 2007, 2:35pm EDT
    by Jonathon Morgan

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